Fiction
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This novel is set in a Bengaluru school for high achievers, who include an India cricket captain
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
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‘The Lying Life of Adults’: What to expect from Elena Ferrante’s new novel coming this September
Devanshi Khetarpal
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‘Kintsugi’: The Japanese art of repair with gold is applied to life and love in this novel
Anukrti Upadhyay
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This debut novel transforms a story of an innocent friendship into a commentary on caste and bigotry
Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan
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In this novel: What happens when a boy from a good family defies his father to go to America?
Usha KR
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Are you a young Indian woman born in the USA? These are your stories
Anu Kumar
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‘Estuary’: Perumal Murugan calls his new novel pure fiction. But we find plenty of truths in it
Yashasvi Arunkumar
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The first fiction of the lockdown in India’s cities is here. Of course it’s from Shobhaa Dé
Varsha Ramachandran
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Loss, death, grief, anger, violence, persecution, dread are the keywords of these stories from Assam
Anidrita Saikia
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‘It was difficult to imagine that people can run a trade in organs’: Benyamin on his new novel
Shevlin Sebastian
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Searching for great novels from Australia? Try the Miles Franklin 2020 shortlist
Jen Webb, The Conversation
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Pandemic reading: Five novels to help us think about the world around us in news ways
Ti-han Chang, The Conversation
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‘An open letter to the novelist agonising over where to put the comma while the world collapses’
Arjun Nath
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How ‘A Burning’ author Megha Majumdar found inspiration in TV shows (among other things)
Devarsi Ghosh
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A young woman has a mental health breakdown that leads to a blackout. This novel is not all made up
Tazmeen Amna
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‘Rising Heat’: Perumal Murugan’s first novel is now available to readers in an English translation
Perumal Murugan
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This novel was published in 2018, but perhaps it is best read during the pandemic in 2020
Nishtha Jaiswal
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This serialised thriller is the first novel to tackle the India-China face-off as well as Covid-19
Yamini Pustake Bhalerao
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Kritika Pandey is the global winner of the £ 5,000 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for this story
Kritika Pandey
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Who gets to make the choices that affect an individual’s life? This novel asks this crucial question
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman